Totally True Things: A Socially Conscious Storytelling Show presents

DANGEROUS WHEN WET: 

BOOZE, SEX AND MY MOTHER

written and performed by Jamie Brickhouse

live-streams Thursday April 15, 2021 7:30 pm EST

Dangerous When Wet: Booze, Sex And My Mother takes us from Jamie's childhood in Texas to a high-profile career in book publishing in New York and a near-fatal descent into alcoholism. About his memoir by the same name that tells this story, Mary Karr, New York Times best-selling author of The Liar's Club wrote: "A blisteringly funny, wrenching account of wrestling way too close to - and later loose from - booze, sex, drugs and his adorable, infuriating mother. The 5-time, award-winning show received a deluge of rave reviews, including the San Francisco Chronicle, which said, "Brickhouse (has) a vocal range finely calibrated to the unique needs of each beat...he writes with fiendish pith."

Called "a natural raconteur" by the Washington Post, Jamie Brickhouse has appeared on PBS-TV Stories From The Stage, is a four-time Moth StorySLAM champion, has been featured on the national podcast of The Moth, is a Grand Slam winner of the National Storytelling Network, a Literary Death Match champion, and has appeared multiple times on RISK! (live show and podcast) Story Collider (live show and podcast) performs throughout New York City, and has appeared in Mexico, Los Angeles, San Francisco, D.C. Minneapolis and Asheville. He has also performed stand-up comedy and recorded voice-overs for the legendary cartoon TV show Beavis and Butthead. He is an international keynote speaker on a range of topics, from alcoholism/addiction, recovery, suicide prevention, overcoming HIV stigma, dementia and so much more. Read more about Jamie Brickhouse's speaking, writing and storytelling at www.jamiebrickhouse.com

Post-show discussion featuring Eric Marcus, founder and host of the award-winning Making Gay History podcast, which mines his decades-old audio archive of rare interviews — conducted for his oral history book of the same name about the LGBTQ civil rights movement — to create intimate, personal portraits of both known and long-forgotten champions, heroes, and witnesses to history.  His other books include Is It A Choice?, Why Suicide?, and Breaking the Surface, the #1 New York Times bestselling autobiography of Olympic diving champion Greg Louganis.  Eric is also co-producer of Those Who Were There, a podcast drawn from Yale University’s Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies.  

This show provides 1.5 contact hours of CE for NYS Social Workers. 

Totally True Things is a weekly live-streamed show that features solo or long-form storytelling focusing on mental health, medical challenges or social issues, hosted by Jude Treder-Wolff, LCSW, There are 11 shows in the series, and you can subscribe to see them all for $65. We will send you the links to watch the shows already recorded as well as links to see each one in the upcoming schedule. 
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